Revolutionizing Delivery with a Cutting-Edge Mobile App

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Results

Kitestring’s durable teams approach and agile methodology delivered a complex, fully-featured mobile app, helping the startup attract investors and scale confidently.

  • Completed development within 3 months, delivering on time and within budget
  • Enabled real-time delivery tracking and shift management for improved operational efficiency
  • Created seamless user authentication and navigation, enhancing user experience and security
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Introduction

A small startup aimed to develop a comprehensive mobile app for a delivery productivity platform leveraging blockchain and AI. The platform required a complex, customizable app to showcase its potential to enhance operations and attract investors.

Problem Statement

The mobile app had to incorporate sophisticated features, including user authentication, driver shift management, delivery tracking, and turn-by-turn navigation. It required rapid development with the ability to pivot and iterate as requirements evolve. Given the complexity of the project, the startup needed a team capable of delivering high quality work under dynamic conditions.

Solution

Kitestring chose a durable teams model, which offered the following advantages: 

  • Flexibility: The team can adapt to changing requirements and pivot as new needs arise.
  • Cost Efficiency:  By managing resources and tasks internally, the team can optimize costs while maintaining high standards.
  • Expertise Rotation: Team members with different skills can be brought in as needed, ensuring the right expertise is applied at the right times.
  • Shared Risk and Outcomes: The team shares the responsibility for delivering solutions and meeting goals, reducing the burden on the client.

Methodology

  • Project Management
      • A dedicated project manager from Kitestring coordinates the efforts of the team, ensuring seamless integration and communication with the startup.
  • Technical Expertise
      • The durable team includes two principle engineers and two developers specializing in React Native. 
      • The team is supported by experts in specific languages like Auth0 for the authentication requirement; Expo and Mapbox for navigation.
  • Agile Process
      • Agile development processes enable the project to pivot rapidly and iterate in response to the startup’s evolving requirements.
  • Technology Stack
    • The app was created using React Native, ensuring cross-platform compatibility and efficient development cycles.

Key Results

  1. Project was completed on schedule within three months, delivering a full-featured mobile app that met the client’s needs and exceeded their expectations.
  2. After successful deployment, the app was rigorously tested and demonstrated its ability to handle complex delivery operations and attract potential investors.

Conclusion

By leveraging flexibility, cost-efficiency, and a rotation with varying skills, Kitestring’s durable team approach proved to the optimal solution for the startup. Our team delivered a high-quality, complex mobile app on time and within budget while showcasing our ability to manage and deliver sophisticated solutions through a well-coordinated and flexible team structure.

Our adaptive approach delivered big results for this startup. Discover how we can do the same for you—let’s connect.

Kitestring has and continues to be a strategic partner by helping to shape and develop our transformation journey.

From the start Kitestring understood the scope of what JCP was looking to do not only modernizing Store’s Checkout Technology but also Customer and Associate Experience. This was a tall order and a complex roadmap that spanned multiple teams, multi-year and substantial investment.
Kitestring brought their best and brightest with industry expertise within retail and technology helping us to build our transformation roadmap, “Next Gen Stores Technology” and business justification for the next 3 years. Kitestring also has a strong UI/UX capability that helped JCP drive significant improvement in workflows associated with checkout and specialty areas such as Jewelry, Salon, Windows to name a few. Change management is critical and the basis for success is documentation which Kitestring played a key role in helping drive and mature our best practices.
Eugene and his team are a fantastic partner to work with who brought a level of transparency to the program that was required in making critical decisions quickly to continue our forward momentum. THANK YOU!!!
Irfan Butt , Director JCPenney